However, someone beat him to the topic and was already campaigning for the matchup.

“Maybe it’s my turn now,” said Werdum, who survived Silva’s first-round battering to win a unanimous decision, 29-28, on all three judges’ cards. “It’s my turn to fight Fedor. I have a lot of respect for Fedor. Fedor is the best in the world.”

Earlier this week at the event’s pre-event press conference, Coker was asked about current Strikeforce champion Alistair Overeem, who hasn’t defended his title since winning the belt two years ago, and whether one of Saturday’s heavyweight winners could be in line for the first title shot, which is expected to come in the first quarter of 2010, Coker told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

Coker, though, thinks the two bouts make sense as a four-man tournament and suggested the two winners would then square off for a chance at the title. At Saturday’s post-fight presser, he said he’ll talk to officials with M-1 Global, which co-promotes Emelianenko’s fights in Strikeforce, to put together a game plan.

“That’s something we’ll have to circle back with M-1,” Coker said. “The fight just ended. We talked about earlier the winners fighting each other. That’s definitely something we should talk about soon.

“All the options are going to be open at this point, but I do think that fight makes a lot of sense. But we’ll have to wait another couple days. Obviously, they’ll have to sit down and talk to Fedor, and we’ll take it from there. But we’d definitely like to do it. It’d be a great match-up.”

You’ll find no bigger proponent for the bout that Werdum (13-4-1). The Brazilian, who made his second Strikeforce appearance following a 2-2 stint in the UFC from 2007 to 2008, prefers a shot at Emelianenko (31-1) more than a fight with Overeem (31-11-1) and a shot at the belt.

After all, Werdum has beaten the current champ once before (via submission in the opening round of PRIDE’s 2006 open-weight grand prix) and instead relishes the possibility of fighting the famed Russian, who on Saturday cemented his legacy as the sport’s greatest heavyweight of all time with a brutal knockout of the previously unbeaten Rogers.

“I fought Alistair one time in Japan and think now is my opportunity to fight against Fedor,” Werdum said. “My goal now is Fedor.”

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